To Light One Candle

Author(s): Pramoda Chitrabhanu
Publisher: East West Unity Press Ananda Ashram New York

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REALIZING THE SELF
As we awaken our generous qualities and drop unwholesome ones, as we explode the myths fueling our push-pull mentality, and as we let go of craving and resisting, we come to a state of equilibrium, integrity, and peace. Then it becomes possible to have ātmadarshana glimpse of our true nature. Some call it an experience of God's grace. Others say it happens naturally when desires and delusions fall away from us. Still others explain it as a meeting of our intrinsic luminosity with All-Light, of the microcosm with the Macrocosm, of the human with the Divine. All agree that it is perfection itself, our divine inheritance, the very ground of Being.
In our daily practice, we need to remind ourselves of what we are in order to embrace our reality and illumine the world. The sitting posture, with the focus attuned to the breath, the mind spacious, undistracted and aware, is the classic posture in which meditators open to this experience.
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